In June 2019, Brave started testing a new ad-blocking rule-matching algorithm implemented in Rust, replacing the previous C++ one. Brave Software released the final Muon-based version with the intention that it would stop working and instructed users to update as its end-of-life approached. Nevertheless, Brave developers moved to Chromium, citing a need to ease their maintenance burden. Until December 2018, Brave ran on a fork of Electron called Muon, which they marketed as a 'more secure fork'. Later that month, Brave added support for Tor in its desktop browser's private-browsing mode. Brave announced that expanded trials would follow. This version of Brave came preloaded with approximately 250 ads and sent a detailed log of the user's browsing activity to Brave for the short-term purpose of testing this functionality. In June 2018, Brave released a pay-to-surf test-version of the browser.

On 20 January 2016, Brave Software launched the first version of Brave with ad-blocking capabilities and announced plans for a privacy-respecting ad platform.

On, CEO Brendan Eich and CTO Brian Bondy founded Brave Software. Īs of August 2022, Brave claims to have more than 57.42 million monthly active users, 19.3 million daily active users and a network of more than 1.6 million content creators. īrave Software's headquarters are in San Francisco, California. Users can then send contributions to websites and content creators, which support BAT in the form of tips along with the ability to keep the cryptocurrency they earned.

It also provides users the choice to turn on optional ads that pay users for their attention in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) cryptocurrency. Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. X86-64, IA-32 (Windows only), ARM (Mac only)īrave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc.

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